The Modern Language Review articles from January 1999

The Modern Language Review archives from January 1999

Les Jugements de la critique sur la 'folie' de J.J. Rousseau: representations et interpretations 1760-1990.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Complete Works of Voltaire/OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by GUNNAR VON PROSCHWITZ. Vol. IV: Histoire de Charles XII. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. 701 pp. 90 [pounds sterling]. In terms of philosophic and social history,...

Anti-clerical gothic: The tale of the sisters in Nicholas Nickleby.
January 1, 1999... Les Jugements de la critique sur la 'folie' de J.-J. Rousseau: representations et interpretations 1760-1990. By CLAUDE WACJMAN. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 337) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. viii + 248 pp. 56 [pounds...

George Eliot's 'Glue Test' Language, law, and legitimacy in Silas Marner.
January 1, 1999... The picaresque format of Dickens's earliest novels permitted stoppages and detours on the way, detours that sometimes took the form of inserted tales. Now and again these episodes helped fill the instalment in hand, as when he told Forster 'I...

'Une question lancinante': Further thoughts on space in the Chansons de Geste.
January 1, 1999... Chapter 6 of George Eliot's novel, Silas Marner, is set, it will be recalled, in the public house called The Rainbow, a name suggestive of the biblical covenant and the Christian prefigurement that situates grace in Nature, in contrast to the...

The construction of the female in the texts of Francis Ponge.
January 1, 1999... 'S'il est une question lancinante, c'est bien celle de la perception de l'espace geographique par les hommes du Moyen Age.' The late Charles Higounet expressed admirably the thoughts of many who have tried before and after him to...

Art, architecture, and catholicism in Michel Butor's La Modification.
January 1, 1999... Francis Ponge, who described himself as 'un peintre de natures mortes', (1) generally avoids dealing with human subjects. His entire output from Le Parti pris des choses (2) onwards is based on the notion that through a meticulous examination of...

Counting syllables in the Divine Comedy: A computer analysis.
January 1, 1999... Of all the writers who have been broadly categorized under the heading 'nouveau roman', Michel Butor is the one who has had the most varied and active contact with the visual arts. In addition to his fiction and his poetry, he has been a prolific...

On Lorca's 'San Rafael (Cordoba)' and some other texts.
January 1, 1999... The principles of syllable scansion in the Divine Comedy are generally well understood. They have been most authoritatively treated in the Enciclopedia dantesca entries by Gian Luigi Beccaria on dialefe and dieresi, which draw partly on...

The angel of history and the truth of love: Merce Rodoreda's La Placa Del Diamant.
January 1, 1999... Qui ne diroit que les glosses augmentent les doubtes et l'ignorance? [...] A quoy se rencontre ce qu'un Crates disoit des escrits de Heraclitus, qu'ils avoient besoin d'un lecteur bon nageur. (Montaigne, Essais, 111....

The later texts in Gustav Schwab's Volksbucher: Origins and character.
January 1, 1999... Al enjuiciar asi el problema catalan del presente y el porvenir [yo] no era ciertamente de los mas pesimistas. Yo he oido a mas de una persona de claro juicio y temple sereno propugnar la conveniencia de un castigo biblico...

Paris fashions in Kleist's Berliner Abendblatter.
January 1, 1999... In 1836-37 the Swabian writer, poet, and clergyman Gustav Schwab (1792-1850) published a collection of Volksbucher under the title Das Buch der schonsten Geschichten und Sagen fur Alt und Jung. (1) It proved popular with the middle-class reading...

Nabokov's textobiography.
January 1, 1999... The Berliner Abendblatter, the pocket-sized daily newspaper edited by the dramatist and short-story writer Heinrich von Kleist from October 1810 to March 1811, was a remarkable venture in the history of German journalism and a political act of...

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction.(Review)
January 1, 1999... A Man's life of any worth is a continual allegory--and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life--a life like the scriptures, fugurative--which such people can no more make out than they can the hebrew [sic] Bible. ...

Theorizing Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ethics, Evil, and Fiction. By COLIN MCGINN. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. x + 186 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. Theorizing Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression. By MEILI STEELE. (Literature, Culture, Theory, 21) Cambridge, New York, and...

Beowulf and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ethics, Evil, and Fiction. By COLIN MCGINN. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. x + 186 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. Theorizing Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression. By Meili Steele. (Literature, Culture, Theory, 21) Cambridge, New York, and...

Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature. Vol. 2 'Ancrene Wisse' the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Beowulf and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England. By CRAIG R. DAVIS. (Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition, 17) New York and London: Garland. 1996. xvii + 237 pp. $36. This book starts off with the premise that Beowulf, whatever else...

The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature. Vol. 2. 'Ancrene Wisse', the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group. By BELLA MILLETT, with the assistance of George B. Jack and Yoko Wada. Cambridge: Brewer. 1996. xi + 260 pp. 35...

Chaucer's Chain of Love.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture. By DAVID AERS and LYNN STALEY. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1996. 310 pp. $45; 40.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $19.95; 17.95...

Essays on Thomas Hoccleve.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Chaucer's Chain of Love. By PAUL BEEKMAN TAYLOR. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1996. 215 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. The opening chapters of Paul Beekman Taylor's book offer a rich...

Shakespeare and National Culture.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Essays on Thomas Hoccleve. Ed. by CATHERINE BATT. (Westfield Publications in Medieval Studies, 10) London: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 1996. ix +...

Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900: An Anthology of Criticism.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Shakespeare and National Culture. Ed. by JOHN J. JOUGHIN. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1997. ix + 351 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900: An Anthology of...

'The Thracian Wonder' by William Rowley and Thomas Heywood: A Critical Edition.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Shakespeare and National Culture. Ed. by JOHN J. JOUGHIN. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1997. ix + 351 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900: An Anthology of...

Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England: Gender, Authorship, Literary Property.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 'The Thracian Wonder' by William Rowley and Thomas Heywood: A Critical Edition. Ed. by MICHAEL NOLAN. (Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Elizabethan & Renaissance Studies, 123) Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 1997. lxi +...

Generating Texts: The Progeny of Seventeenth-Century Prose.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England: Gender, Authorship, Literary Property. By LAURA J. ROSENTHAL. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1996. x + 257 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. Like many critics today, Laura J....

The Matter of Revolution:Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Generating Texts: The Progeny of Seventeenth-Century Prose. By SHARON CADMAN SEELIG. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1996. x + 202 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling]. In a celebrated passage of Areopagitica Milton...

1650-1850: Ideas,Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 2 (1996).(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton. By JOHN ROGERS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1996. xvi + 257 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. The Matter of Revolution is an ambitious, stimulating...

Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel.(Review)
January 1, 1999... 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 2 (1996). Ed. by KEVIN L. COPE. New York: AMS Press. 1996. xv + 366 pp. $62.50. The ambitious scope of this annual, reflected in the open arms of its title, determines the...

Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century gothic Fictions and English Nationality.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel. By MICHAEL PRINCE. (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press....

Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality. By CANNON SCHMITT. (New Cultural Studies) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. xii + 219 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]; $35. In a letter to Wordsworth,...

Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays. Ed. by HELEN JASKOSKI. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xv + 238 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95...

The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordsworth, Keats and Baudelaire.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth. By TIM FULFORD. (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, 30) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University...

Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordsworth, Keats and Baudelaire. By GERALDINE FRIEDMAN. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1996. xii + 270 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. Since the 1960s American studies of English Romantic...

Writing and Victorianism.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years. By JOHN CHAPPLE. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1997. xviii + 492 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. This is a remarkable and valuable book. It is remarkable for the perseverance and enthusiasm...

At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Writing and Victorianism. Ed. by J. B. BULLEN. (Crosscurrents) London and New York: Longman. 1997. viii +3 46 pp. 46 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 17.99 [pounds sterling]). In May, 1918, in Brixton jail where he was being held for opposing the...

Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner.(Review)
January 1, 1999... At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature. BY JOHN CARLOS ROWE. New York: Columbia University Press. 1997. xiv + 302 pp. $57; 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $19; 13 [pounds sterling]). John Carlos Rowe gathers his...

Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner. BY BARBARA LADD. (Southern Literary Studies) Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1997. xix + 197 pp. $30. 'What, then, is the American,...

The Turning Word: American Literary Modernism and Continental Theory.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism. By DANIEL ALBRIGHT. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. x + 307 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. Daniel Albright takes on a topic that has...

W.H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse. Vol. 1: 1926-1938.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Turning Word: American Literary Modernism and Continental Theory. By JOSEPH N. RIDDLE. Ed. by MARK BAUERLEIN. (Critical Authors and Issues) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. xii + 172 pp. 34.50 [pounds sterling]...

What Else But Love? The Ordeal of RAce in Faulkner and Morrison.(Review)
January 1, 1999... W. H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse. Vol. 1: 1926-1938. Ed. by EDWARD MENDELSON. (Complete Works of W. H. Auden) London: Faber. 1996. xi + 836 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. 'Well--what a hoot', wrote the breathless young...

Stages of Annihilation: Theatrical Representations of the Holocaust.(Review)
January 1, 1999... What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison. By PHILIP M. WEINSTEIN. New York: Columbia University Press. 1997. xxix + 237 pp. $18; 12 [pounds sterling]. In the United States, Alice Walker once suggested, black and white...

Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Stages of Annihilation: Theatrical Representations of the Holocaust. By EDWARD R. ISSER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 209 pp. 28.50 [pounds sterling]. Presenting the Holocaust...

After Empire: Scott, Naipual, Rushdie.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity. By RICHARD BEGAM. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. xi + 237 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. In Beckett and the End of Modernity, Richard Begam analyses five Beckett novels, Murphy, Watt, Molloy,...

Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger.(Review)
January 1, 1999... After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie. By MICHAEL GORRA. Chicago and London University of Chicago Press. 1997. x + 207 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $14.95; 11.95 [pounds sterling]). Michael Gorra's study of the work of Paul...

Crystal Out of Chaos: John Hawkes and the Shapes of Apocalypse.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger. By RICHARD KIRKLAND. London and New York: Longman. 1996. viii + 186 pp. 36 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]). Written in the context of the 1994...

Exploring the French Language.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Crystals Out of Chaos: John Hawkes and the Shapes of Apocalypse. By LESLEY MARX. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 244 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. John Hawkes has always seemed to...

Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Exploring the French Language. By R. ANTHONY LODGE and others. London, New York, and Sydney: Arnold. 1997. vii + 216 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.95 [pounds sterling]). This collective volume, designed for the undergraduate student...

Les Remarques de l'Academie Francaise sur le quinte-Curce de Vaugelas.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French. By MICHAEL D. PICONE. (Lingvisticae investigationes: supplementa, Studies in French and General Linguistics, 18) Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: Benjamins. 1996. xii + 462 pp. Michael Picone's...

Aspects de l'epopee romane: mentalites, ideologies, intertextualites.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Les Remarques de l'Academie Francaise sur le Quinte-Curce de Vaugelas. Ed. by WENDY AYRES-BENNETT and PHILIPPE CARON. Paris: Presses de l'Ecole Normale Superieure. 1996. 427 pp. 390 F. The aim of this work is to contribute to an understanding...

Nostradamus: Le Premieres Centuries ou Propheties (edition Mace Bonhomee de 1555). Edition et commentaire de l'Epitre a Cesar et des 353 premiers quatrains.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Nostradamus: Le Premieres Centuries ou Propheties (edition Mace Bonhomme de 1555). Edition et commentaire de l'Epitre a Cesar et des 353 premiers quatrains. Ed. by PIERRE BRIND'AMOUR. Completed by PIERRE KUNSTMANN. (Textes Litteraires Francais)...

Nostradamus astrophile: Les astres et l'astrologie dans la view et l'oeuvre de Nostradamus.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Aspects de l'epopee romane: mentalites, ideologies, intertextualites. Ed. by HANS VAN DIJK and WILLEM NOOMEN. Groningen: Forsten. 1995. 526 pp. This volume draws together papers from the thirteenth international congress of the Societe...

Montaigne et Sebond: L'art de la traduction.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Nostradamus: Le Premieres Centuries ou Propheties (edition Mace Bonhomme de 1555). Edition et commentaire de l'Epitre a Cesar et des 353 premiers quatrains. Ed. by PIERRE BRIND'AMOUR. Completed by PIERRE KUNSTMANN. (Textes Litteraires Francais)...

Lectures classiques.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Montaigne et Sebond: l'art de la traduction. By PHILIP HENDRICK. (Etudes montaignistes, 27) Paris: Champion; Geneve: Slatkine. 1996. 264 pp. 250 F. So bizarre has it seemed that the author of the Essais should have started his literary career...

Creative Tensions: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century French Literature.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Lectures classiques. By JULES BRODY. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press. 1996. xi + 370 pp. $45. Retrospective collections of articles can sometimes prove to be disappointing. The smoke of ancient critical battlefields loses, over time,...

Reglement donne par une dame de haute qualite a M sa petite-fille, pour sa conduite, & pour celle de sa maison: avec un autre reglement que cette dame avoit dresse pour elle-mesme.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Creative Tensions: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century French Literature. By NICHOLAS HAMMOND. London: Duckworth. 1997. 160 pp. 11.95 [pounds sterling]. This slightly over-ambitious study attempts breadth and depth in 160 pages. It aims to...

Music, Dance, and Laughter: Comic Creation in Molier's Comedy-ballets.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Reglement donne par une dame de haute qualite a M*** sa petite-fille, pour sa conduite, & pour celle de sa maison: avec un autre reglement que cette dame avoit dresse pour elle-mesme. By JEANNE DE SCHOMBERG. Ed. by COLETTE H. WINN. Paris:...

Alexis Piron, poete (1689-1773) ou la difficile condition d'auteur sous Louis XV.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Music, Dance, and Laughter: Comic Creation in Moliere's Comedy-Ballets. By STEPHEN H. FLECK. (Biblio 17, 88) Paris, Seattle, and Tubingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 1995. 231 pp. 22-40 [pounds sterling]; $35. A welcome...

The Complete Works of Voltaire/Euvres completes de Voltaire.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Alexis Piron, poete (1689-1773) ou la difficile condition d'auteur sous Louis XV. By PASCALE VEREB. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 349) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1997. vii + 683 pp. 102 [pounds sterling]. On pages...

Studies in Poetic Discourse: Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Holderlin.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Studies in Poetic Discourse: Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Holderlin. By HANS-JOST FREY. Trans. from German by William Whobrey, with trans. from French and Latin by BRIDGET MCDONALD. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1996. 198 pp. This...

Unfolding Mallarme: The Development of a Poetic Art.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Unfolding Mallarme: The Development of a Poetic Art. By ROGER PEARSON. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press. 1996. xii + 316 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. In his admirably concise introduction ('"Devant la letter": On Reading Mallarme'), Roger...

Combray.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Combray. By MARCEL PROUST. Ed. by LEIGHTON HODSON. (French Texts Series) London: Bristol Classical Press. 1997. xxx + 175 pp. The new edition of Combray by Leighton Hodson offers an opportunity to approach Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu...

Les Mots des autres: Lieu commun et creation romanesque dans les oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert, Nathalie Sarraute et Robert Pinget.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Les Mots des autres: lieu commun et creation romanesque dans les oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert, Nathalie Sarraute et Robert Pinget. By LAURENT ADERT. (Collection 'Objet') Villeneuve d'Ascq (Nord): Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 1996. 301...

Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction. By ROBERT W. GREENE. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1993. 188 pp. If the twin towers of twentieth-century French literature are existentialist...

Antonin Artaud: L'enonciation ou l'epreuve de la cruate.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Antonin Artaud: L'e'nonciation ou l'e'preuve de la cruaute'. By CATHERINE BOUTHORS-PAILLART, with a preface by Julia Kristeva. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 357). Geneve: Droz. 1997. xiii + 230 pp. 32.65 SwF. In recent years, a...

Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing. Ed. by CAROLYN BAILEY GILL. (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) London and New York: Routledge. 1996. xiii + 234 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. With this book, Carolyn Bailey Gill has edited another...

French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era. By OLGA AUGUSTINOS. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1994. xiii + 345 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. As the twentieth-century...

Le Tour des Horizons: Critique et recits de voyage.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Le Tour des Horizons: critique et re'cits de voyage. By ADRIEN PASQUALI. (Litterature des voyages, 8) Paris: Klincksieck. 1994. xvii + 181 pp. 170 F. The recent proliferation of travel accounts published (or republished) in French and the...

L'Identite culturelle de la Belgique et de la Suisse francophone: Actes du colloque international de Waldegg (soleure) juin 1993.(Review)
January 1, 1999... L'Identite' culturelle de la Belgique et de la Suisse francophone: Actes du colloque international de Waldegg (Soleure) juin 1993. Ed. by PAUL GORCEIX. Paris: Champion. 1997. 238 pp. Belgian and Swiss writers and, and predominantly, academics...

Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text 1470-1600.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text 1470-1600. By BRIAN RICHARDSON. (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. xvi + 265 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]....

Leopardi, la malinconia.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Leopardi, la malinconia. By ELIO GIOANOLA. Milan: Jaca. 1995. 505 pp. 48,000 lire. This study proposes a revaluation of Leopardi's life, works, and thought, in the light of his existential condition of melancholy, and to this end a...

The Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish. Ed. by CAROL STYLES CARVAJAL and JANE HORWOOD. Oxford, New York, and Madrid: Oxford University Press. 1997. 959 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. This easy-to-use format...

Spanish Verbs.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Spanish Verbs. By JOHN BUTT. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. xvii + 276 pp. 4.99 [pounds sterling]. The purpose of this book is to be a reference guide to the Spanish verb system. It is divided into two main parts: an...

The Spanish-Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to sociolinguistic Issues.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Spanish-Speaking World. A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues. By CLARE MAR-MOLINERO. London and New York: Routledge. 1997. xvi + 182 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 10.99 [pounds sterling]). This is one of a series of...

Al que en buen hora nacio: Essays on the Spanish Epic and Ballad in Honour of Colin Smith.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Al que en buen hora nacio: Essays on the Spanish Epic and Ballad in Honour of Colin Smith. Ed. by BRIAN POWELL and GEOFFREY WEST. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Modern Humanities Research Association. 1996. viii + 207 pp. 30.00 [pounds...

Studies on the Spanish Sentimental Romance 1440: Redefining a Genre.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Studies on the Spanish Sentimental Romance 1440-1550: Redefining a Genre. Ed. by JOSEPH J. GWARA and E. MICHAEL GERLI. (Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias, 168) London: Tamesis. 1997. xvii + 210 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $63. Followers of...

Dramas of Distinction: A Study of Plays by Golden-Age Women.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Dramas of Distinction: A Study of Plays by Golden-Age Women. By TERESA SCOTT SOUFAS. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1997. 201 pp. $34.95. The writing of theatrical texts by women writers of the Golden Age is a neglected area, because...

La Comedia hagiografica del siglo de oro espanol: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina y Calderon de la Barca.(Review)
January 1, 1999... La Comedia hagiografica del siglo de oro espanol: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina y Calderon de la Barca. By ELMA DASSBACH. (Iberica, 22) New York, Berne, and Berlin: Lang. 1997. x + 200 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. Elma Dassbach attempts to provide...

The Calderonian Stage: Body and Soul.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Calderonian Stage: Body and Soul. Ed. by MANUEL DELGADO MORALES. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 288 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays highlights the value of...

Soledades.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Soledades. By LUIS DE GONGORA. Trans. with an introduction, notes and bibliography, by PHILIP POLACK. (Spanish Texts Series) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press. 1997. xxx + 130 pp. 8.95 [pounds sterling]. Philip Polack is to be congratulated on...

Creacion de una realidad ficticia: Las Novelas de Torquemada de Perez Galdos.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Creacion de una realidad ficticia: Las Novelas de Torquemada de Perez Galdos. Ed. by YOLANDA ARENCIBIA and others. Madrid: Castalia. 1997. 275 pp. 1,800 ptas. This publication is the result of an extended period of discussion and collaboration...

A Watch Over Mortality: The Philosophical Story of Julian Marias.(Review)
January 1, 1999... A Watch Over Mortality: The Philosophical Story of Julian Marias. By HAROLD RALEY. (SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) Albany: State University of New York Press. 1997. 289 pp. $21.95. The book divides into three...

The Hispanic Homograph: Gay Self-Representation in Contemporary Spanish Autobiography.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Hispanic Homograph: Gay Self-Representation in Contemporary Spanish Autobiography. By ROBERT RICHMOND ELLIS. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1997. 176 pp. $27.50 (paperbound $13.95). Despite the presence of the word 'gay'...

Llover sobre mojado: una reflexion personal sobre la historia.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Llover sobre mojado: una reflexion personal sobre la historia. By LISANDRO OTERO. Havana: Letras Cubanas. 1997. 292 pp. $6. At this very late stage in the fortunes of the Cuban Revolution, the literature of the country's diaspora reveals a wide...

Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities. By ALFRED ARTEAGA. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. ix + 185 pp. 11.95 [pounds sterling]; $16.95. This is an important...

Lisbon.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Lisbon. Comp. by JOHN LAIDLAR. (World Bibliographical Series, 199) Oxford, Santa Barbara, CA, and Denver, CO: Clio Press. 1997. 1 + 255 pp. 52 [pounds sterling]. The aim of the World Bibliographical Series is 'to provide, in a uniform format,...